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Eric Ebron was up late one night last week, still in the recovery room by his fiancée's side, when he started welling up with pride as he held his newborn son, Oliver Dash Ebron.

"I think it was about the third night when I was just sitting up with him one night and he was just staring at me in my eyes," Ebron said. "It (was like) somebody was in the other room cutting onions, something, cause I just was like, I just started crying cause it’s just an amazing feeling. Especially someone that looks exactly like you. So it’s definitely crazy."

Ebron spent his bye last week becoming a first-time father, and the fourth-year Lions tight end said that experience has given him a new outlook on life that he hopes will help him on the football field.

"The switch is just like, it’s amazing," Ebron said. "It's just like how fast and how important everything becomes, everything that you’re doing because now you’re setting an example not only for yourself and for people that look up to you but for one person that’s eventually going to walk and want to be like you and want to talk like you and want to act like you. So it kind of changes your whole perspective upon everything. The way you wake up, the way you brush your teeth. It's everything."

On Friday, Ebron, who spent last weekend in Houston for the birth of his son — mother and baby are still in Houston currently — said his son's arrival has him in a different place mentally, and noted he's got something else to play for on the field.

"This is probably the happiest I’ve ever been," Ebron said. "This is probably the calmest I’ve ever been, this is probably the most excited I’ve ever been and it’s just simply because if I go out there and play hard and we get this win, then I get to go see him. If we don’t, we got to come in on Monday so I’m definitely going to try to go out there and give it everything I got so I can go home and see him cause that’s really what all that boils down to."